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New York’s Restaurant Jungle Grows a Little Lusher

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When spring comes, branches and leaves appear in the most unexpected places. This week&#8217;s food coverage is like that: There are no huge openings, analogous to maples or firs springing up overnight, but rather a rich carpet of new sprouts and saplings. Rob and Robin glory in the pig-out that is <a href="http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/resto/">Resto</a>, the new Belgian restaurant on Park Avenue South; Gael Greene stops in to enjoy the immense, spanking-new <a href="http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/landmarc/">Landmarc </a>in the Time Warner Center; David Chang knows just what to do with the long-awaited, precious ramps in In Season; and other unexpected treats, from a waterside barbecue in one of the Short Lists to a slew of spring Openings fill out the foliage.

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Hey, can you hand me that pig's head?Photo: R.J. Mickelson/Veras for New York Magazine

When spring comes, branches and leaves appear in the most unexpected places. This week’s food coverage is like that: There are no huge openings, analogous to maples or firs springing up overnight, but rather a rich carpet of new sprouts and saplings. Rob and Robin glory in the pig-out that is Resto, the new Belgian restaurant on Park Avenue South; Gael Greene stops in to enjoy the immense, spanking-new Landmarc in the Time Warner Center; David Chang knows just what to do with the long-awaited, precious ramps in In Season; and other unexpected treats, from a waterside barbecue in one of the Short Lists to a slew of spring Openings fill out the foliage.

• Resto, a casual but surprisingly intense Belgian bar and restaurant, gets the Underground Gourmet seal of approval, leveraging some very robust food and “porkophilia that approaches Momofukian levels” into a glowing four-star review.

• In Openings, the first Top Chef victor, Harold Dieterle, finally opens his place, Perilla, in the West Village, and Park Slope, Hell’s Kitchen, and the Upper East Side each get a new, affordable place to eat.

• Gael Greene has been around enough big places to know how hard it is to feed customers by the hundreds. That may be why she forgives Landmarc a few failings, especially given how badly the neighborhood needs it.

• In an admirably counterintuitive move, Rob and Robin prevail upon one of the city’s most notorious meatheads to cook up some very delicate pickled ramps, in this week’s In Season.

• In this week’s two Short List;s the late Adrienne Shelley’s new film, Waitress, inspires a list of great pies around town, and three good causes get the attention they deserve, including the annual Brooklyn Pigfest at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.

• Lastly, a brief Intelligencer piece tells the tale of how one of the shrines of the New American cooking is moving after many years.